Shift Manager

Overview

Who we are: Prysmian is a global cabling solutions provider leading the energy transition and digital transformation.

Prysmian is a public company listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, with almost 150 years of experience
, over 33,000 employees, 104 plants and 27 R&D centers in over 50 countries
.

Everyone at Prysmian has the potential to make their mark; because whatever you do, wherever you are based, you will be part of a company that is helping transform the world around us.

We are currently recruiting for a Shift Manager for our cables factory. Who will be responsible for around 35 team members on the shopfloor.

Working on a 4on/4off continuous shift pattern days and nights (7am-7pm/7pm-7am)

Key activities and responsibilities include:

• Compliance

• Ensure compliance with both Site and Company Health and Safety Policies and that Health and Safety standards are always maintained.
• Act as ‘out of hours’ health and safety contact, escalating to the Production Manager as required.
• Act as a role model for safety behaviours and practices, while re-enforcing correct behaviours of team members through regular behavioural safety observations.
• Undertake initial investigation of accidents / incidents, providing a statement of facts and conducting initial investigations and identifying countermeasures.
• Ensure compliance with Quality standards are always maintained. Conducting investigations if trigger levels are breached.
• Manage and support team leaders through the Short Interval Control (SIC) process, ensuring that standards are on target and any deviations have a clear action plan.
• Report details of downtime losses. If a downtime event breaches the trigger level, the Shift Manager along with team members will conduct an initial investigation and identify countermeasures.
• Ensure team members conduct thorough handovers, completing handover logs to the platinum standard, to ensure all team members have the required information to succeed.
• Ensure all team members have completed all Operator Daily Checks and any housekeeping/cleaning tasks.

• Communication

• Responsible for effective communication with the Production teams, supporting them with the delivery of briefings / one point lessons.
• Provide an effective handover to the incoming Shift Manager, to ensure that any outstanding actions can be completed and to give an accurate indication of shift performance.
• Compile and distribute to the Site Leadership Team a shift report, using the defined standard format, outlining the performance of each shift, any issues and actions taken.
• Conduct a ‘start’ and ‘end’ of shift meeting with SM and Maintenance to agree priorities and drive actions.
• Support production leads in the delivery of the daily summary and escalation meeting.
• Support cross department communication, acting as a facilitator, ensuring prompt resolution of problems (e.g. between Maintenance and Production).

• People Matters

• Support the production leads in the identification of training needs and ensure that training activities are completed.
• Organise overtime, ensuring that cover is in place, in accordance with Site rules and controls.
• Act as the first point of contact for People Issues; escalating to the Production Manager, as required.
• Act as the first point of contact for Absence Reporting; provide absence notification to the Site Leadership Team and ensure reasons for absence are accurately reported, using the defined standard format.
• Conduct Return to Work Interviews with employees following periods of absence and provide feedback to the Production Manager, using the defined standard format.
• Monitor timekeeping and lateness, escalating to the Production Manager as required.
• Manage holiday, in line with predefined site rules, escalating issues to the Production Manager.
• One to one with shop floor people

• Process Flow Management

• Manage Process Flow by monitoring WIP and Non-conforming product during the shift, setting the following shift up to succeed against the Production Plan.
• Involvement in the development of the Daily Production Plan, working alongside Production Control / Logistics.
• Ensure adherence to the daily Production Plan, responding to forced…